Google starts to censor The Pirate Bay

Long ago the guys from Mountain View announced changes to its policy on inappropriate content and related to piracy, among which included the elimination of terms related to those of the “autocomplete” Search engine.

Months ago it was the turn of Rapidshare and other places to share torrents, which were blocked both the ‘auto’, as in the instant results, and now is the turn of The Pirate Bay.

So when you enter the word “pirate” (without the quotes) in the search cambo, the search stop being so ‘smart’, and therefore does not make the obvious suggestion to The Pirate Bay, which by their relevance in the Web is normal to stand as one of the auto-complete options.

Come on, the same goes for terms like “uTorrent”, “BitTorrent” and “RapidShare”: No suggestions or search Results are displayed before you finish typing the entire word.

To all these, Google’s insistence on making these locks still seems silly to me, and i do not think it has any impact on file sharing sites, because users are not stupid: While looking at Google because they felt practical, now just go to the sites in question and use their internal search engines. That does not have to be Einstein …